The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-07-28
RED REPUBLICANS.
That's What Colonel Henry
WmlterSOn Dubs the Waivers
of the Bloody Shirt.
The Famous Kentuckian Talks on
National Politics, the Tariff and
the Treasury Surplus.
Y. Herald Of tho l9th.


National Politics, the Tariff and
the Treasury Surplus.
NY. Herald of the 10th
Everybody in New York was not un-
comfortable yesterday. There was
one man whom the heat did not effect.
Col. Henry Watterson, the accom-
plished editor of the Louisville
Cot~ier-J Journal, the pride of the blue
grass region and father of the star
eyed Goddess of Reform, sat in an airy
window gazing down compassionately
on the brow-mopping policeman, fan
working nurse girls and overcome cit
liens who sat gasping for breath in
Union square.
The colonel was perfectly happy
and cool, but not to Herald reporter
who dropped in to chat with him on
Presidential prospects, the tariff and
the canvass OF 1888.
"Have you time to tell me what is
going on in politics?" asked the re-
porter after a short conversation on
general topics.
"Certainly; but there is nothing
new just now. 1t is an off season, Sc
to speak"
"Ah, yes but now is the time when
schemes for 1888 are being laid. What
will be the policy of the democrats
and republicans in the coming Presi.
dental fght?"
ALUCKY ADMINISTRATIONS.
at seems to me-" said Mr.. Waiter
son, "that the political elements are
slowly but surely forming themselves
on either side of two tolerably distinct
party lines and shaping themselves
for contest next year whose features
can be already easily deserted"
GAS to next year, what of it?"
"What, you mean, will be its issues
Why, the solid South and high tariff
on one side, the administration and
the reduction of taxes on the other
with such incidental and collateral
foolishness and buncombe as the poll
ticians can lug in to piece out theil
speeches and confuse the crednlous
the prejudiced and the ignorant"
"Who will be the candidates."
Undoubtedly the President will bC
one of them. His nomination is nov
foregone conclusion, and though i
may evolve little enthusiasm it viii
come by acclaim. In saying this | dt
not express a wish but an opinion.
see that my friend Halstead's paper a
Cincinnati surmises that | am soften
ing to Mr.. Cleveland because ] wan
to be Minister to England If want
ed an Office | should not need to q
outside of Kentucky to get one. Blu
there is no Office within the gift OF tn,
President or the people which would
accept, and last of all the English mis-
sion, which were better abolished thar
filled as it nowis Nevertheless. an
grateful for the kind words of the Her
mid, and will be obliged if you vii
thank Mr.. Bennett for me. To return
to the President he was certainl
born under a lucky star. In the yer,
beginning of his administration dealt
took off the chiefs among living dem
ocrats, and such possible competitor
as were spared by death the admins
tration has managed to cripple an
retire. There remains no one to con
test the field with Mr. Cleveland. w
are bound to take him, whether W
like him or not"
"NoTHIN' AGIN THE PRESIDENT"
"Do you yourself like him?"
"Well, as the old lady at the mourn
ers' bench observed when asked whetf
er she loved the Lord, / may say
haint got nothin' agin him." Their
are many things about the Presider
like and there are some things
don't like but personally he is accep
able and agreeable to me, and di
counting all outstanding points of oil
lection enough of agreement remain
for me to support his reelection wit
hearty good will, and ! am going I
doit | think in this ] am sustaine
by an overwhelming majority of den
Ocrats in my part of the country"
"What about the republican nom
nee?"
"At one time ] thought the republ
cans would enter q dark horse in I'll
race, and suggested General Luciu
Fairchild as their Franklin Pierc
There seemed to be some analogol
points. Recent indications, howeye
point to the denomination of NJ
Blaine. In that event we shall ha,
the old fight over again, with SON